label highlight 17/02 Three:Four Records

"La Tene's previous album Vouerca/Fahy, released at the end of April 2016 on the three:four, was rapidly out-of-print after a long series of concerts throughout France and neighboring countries. Thanks to this immediate success, they were invited to play the prestigious ...
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listen on bandcamp***"The Xvoto Reels provides additional proof (if necessary) that Razen is an audacious group. If the Belgian band led by the duo Brecht Ameel and Kim Delcour has explored different musical worlds with changing formations, the involuntary irruption of ...
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"La Tene's previous album Vouerca/Fahy, released at the end of April 2016 on the three:four, was rapidly out-of-print after a long series of concerts throughout France and neighboring countries. Thanks to this immediate success, they were invited to play the prestigious ...
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listen at bandcamp***"You can hear the friendship in this music, an almost telepathic musical synergy so much more that the sum of its parts. A back and forth that moves. Compositions with the loose back and forth of an improvisation. Of a conversation. A conversation ...
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"A true chanteuse halogene, Eloise Decazes has been haunting the ruins of French chanson for a few years now, notably with the group Arlt. Elsewhere she can be heard miniaturizing Luciano Berio's Folksongs in the company of Delphine Dora, or improvising hymns to the ...
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"A true chanteuse halogene, Eloise Decazes has been haunting the ruins of French chanson for a few years now, notably with the group Arlt. Elsewhere she can be heard miniaturizing Luciano Berio's Folksongs in the company of Delphine Dora, or improvising hymns to the ...
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"Originally Oba Loba is a project of Norberto Lobo and Joao Lobo in order to satisfy their desire to compose music for a band. Their debut album, Oba Loba, released in 2015 and critically acclaimed, has been described as a "hybrid instrumentals that cannibalise popular ...
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"In The Byre I hear how spaces and times leave their affects like so many traces. And how the present-time of the music is something like an interval. A present interval that is not the result or effect (or even function) of our shared hesitation, but is the very ...
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"Joao Lobo is a portugese drum player living in Brussels. He is not Norberto Lobo's brother or cousin (even if they play a lot together and Norberto Lobo did the drawing for this record). From jazz to gnawa music, instrumental electronic trance to original rock, ...
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"Joao Lobo is a portugese drum player living in Brussels. He is not Norberto Lobo's brother or cousin (even if they play a lot together and Norberto Lobo did the drawing for this record). From jazz to gnawa music, instrumental electronic trance to original rock, ...
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repressed "La Tene collect, listen and probe folk melodies and motifs of large territories, from the Jura to the mountains of Auvergne, weaving them to repetition and continuous sounds, electronics and frenzy until exhaustion. Their music, drones played with ...
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"Having made a reputation for hypnotic and darkly enveloping songs, Brooklyn's Mike Wexler has persisted through several waves of contemporary folk music without ever being fully absorbed by any of them. Syntropy - his third full length - is the first to convey the ...
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"Having made a reputation for hypnotic and darkly enveloping songs, Brooklyn's Mike Wexler has persisted through several waves of contemporary folk music without ever being fully absorbed by any of them. Syntropy - his third full length - is the first to convey the ...
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"Following Phantasmes, released in 2014, Ruins of Time is a new original motion picture soundtrack of the short film "Ruins of Time" by Mathieu Peteul. "Ruins of Time" is an experimental short film originating from the film Limbo. Available on vinyl, the 4 tracks mixes ...
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"La Tene collect, listen and probe folk melodies and motifs of large territories, from the Jura to the mountains of Auvergne, weaving them to repetition and continuous sounds, electronics and frenzy until exhaustion. Their music, drones played with traditional and ...
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"Dana Valser is a singer from Spain, paying close attention to ancient folklore and intimate and obscure sounds of the heart. Her voice full of a deep melancholy around which arpeggios roughly played like an old blues by Christophe Langdale. In the background resonate ...
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"With Fornalha, his first record on three:four released two years ago, Norberto Lobo began to move from a fingerpicking into a more personal and adventurous playing. Muxama is the following step. The reference to americana music are less and less obvious. His technique ...
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"With Fornalha, his first record on three:four released two years ago, Norberto Lobo began to move from a fingerpicking into a more personal and adventurous playing. Muxama is the following step. The reference to americana music are less and less obvious. His technique ...
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https://soundcloud.com/three-four-records/sets/late-superimpositions"In the last three decades, no other band has surpassed The Supreme Dicks in mystery. No one has, at this moment, penetrated into their irradiant secret. All answers have yet to be found to the ...
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"In the last three decades, no other band has surpassed The Supreme Dicks in mystery. No one has, at this moment, penetrated into their irradiant secret. All answers have yet to be found to the questions aroused by their work for the listener (What is its centre? Its ...
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"Rust has been completed over a number of years - writing and recording started around the time the previous circle bros album 'Haven' came out. It took a full five years to get everything done - it was a very long process of revisiting the songs, and deciding what was ...
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"For our second release with Filipe Felizardo, we made a double LP. I'm not sure we can make a triple for the next one, but for sure, this release could not be a single one. The first time we listened to it, its raw power kept us in suspense for the nearly one hour and ...
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"In ZDB is the recording of the Norberto Lobo, Giovanni Di Domenico and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto gig that took place on november 14th at Galeria Ze dos Bois (one of our prefered venues in Europe) in Lisbon. Three relatively young players with phenomenal technical skills and ...
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"Helena Espvall first met David Maranha in 2006 when her band Espers played a show in Lisbon. They played two gigs the following year, and Espvall contributed to Maranha's Marches of the New World. Since then they always had the intention of working together more ...
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